The dr. was AMAZED at all the words Evie has now. I made a list in the two days before her check up and below are all the ones I collected. She weighs 23 lb 3 oz and the nurse measured her at 30" but that would mean she shrunk. I think I had her about 32". I can double check. She is definitely not shrinking. Her favorite new word is 'NO' and she loves to show her preferences... all the time.
mine
no
yeah/yes
uh-oh
pumpkin
daddy
mommy
hi
bear
playground
quack
cow
kitty cat
meow
jack
look
here
eye
thank you
book
read
bye bye
bottle
apple
night-night
cracker
baby
shoes
chair
fish
ball
outside
get down
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Vocabulary Explosion
Evie is adding new words all the time now. Just today she has added, 'Bear, Mommy, and Bite" to her vocabulary. With Joshua and Mira I kept a list of what they said when. With Evie, that hasn't happened. It is ok, we still love her tremendously!
Josh has a birthday party today at a bouncy place that all the kids are invited to. They are so excited to be going. It is a cold, windy day so we haven't been outside to play.
Mira is trying to remove her nap from her day but I am not ready for that yet and I don't think she is either. Josh took a nap up through 4 and periodically until he was 5. I need my afternoon time!
Time to cook dinner so that Daddy can eat while we are away at the party.
Josh has a birthday party today at a bouncy place that all the kids are invited to. They are so excited to be going. It is a cold, windy day so we haven't been outside to play.
Mira is trying to remove her nap from her day but I am not ready for that yet and I don't think she is either. Josh took a nap up through 4 and periodically until he was 5. I need my afternoon time!
Time to cook dinner so that Daddy can eat while we are away at the party.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Halloween
Halloween at our house is a much anticipated event. I held the kids off until the middle of October from decorating the house inside and out but we went on two hay rides to pick pumpkins and several hay and corn mazes. I love fall and I hope that my children will appreciate this season, too.
We carved our pumpkins a week before Halloween with Joshua picking a spooking design and making a drawing for a creepy, nashing mouth to adorn the big 44 pound pumpkin we picked and Mira drawing a funny face for her small pumpkin, the littlest one we could reasonably carve. On pumpkin carving day we roasted the seeds and enjoyed spiced cider.
On the school hayride Joshua spent more time hunting for bugs, which were abundant, than looking for the perfect pumpkin. Mira, again, find the smallest pumpkin she could. She prefers little things.
On Halloween, we had a dinosaur (Joshua), a fairy princess (Mira) and a scarecrow (Evelyn) out hunting for goodies. We hit the four cul du sacs that are nearest to our house and called it a night. Even so, without having ingested one bit of sugar the children were bouncing off the walls. They dug in and had several candies each and then it was off to bed.
Joshua's behavior, for the most part, is great except we he does get into trouble it is something BIG. We finally broke him of the habit of climbing on top of our armoire after writing about 60 lines over 3 days. But we couldn't keep him out of our room and our drawers. The door to our bedroom is now locked after an unfortunate event with a pocket knife and our foot board.
Mira is having better days consistently. She is such a wild card though when she decides to misbehave. It is hard to enforce rules for her because the situations often affect everyone else. I think that age 4 can't come soon enough! But when she is good she is very, very good!
Evie is adding words, words, words! She understands concepts that surprise me like when she wonders through the house with a bracelet showing anyone that she comes across with a, "Look! Look!". She says "Thank You" and "playground" and "pumpkin". Mandy is Candy. She brings people things that belong to them and tries (sometimes succeeding!) to put her clothes on and off.
We carved our pumpkins a week before Halloween with Joshua picking a spooking design and making a drawing for a creepy, nashing mouth to adorn the big 44 pound pumpkin we picked and Mira drawing a funny face for her small pumpkin, the littlest one we could reasonably carve. On pumpkin carving day we roasted the seeds and enjoyed spiced cider.
On the school hayride Joshua spent more time hunting for bugs, which were abundant, than looking for the perfect pumpkin. Mira, again, find the smallest pumpkin she could. She prefers little things.
On Halloween, we had a dinosaur (Joshua), a fairy princess (Mira) and a scarecrow (Evelyn) out hunting for goodies. We hit the four cul du sacs that are nearest to our house and called it a night. Even so, without having ingested one bit of sugar the children were bouncing off the walls. They dug in and had several candies each and then it was off to bed.
Joshua's behavior, for the most part, is great except we he does get into trouble it is something BIG. We finally broke him of the habit of climbing on top of our armoire after writing about 60 lines over 3 days. But we couldn't keep him out of our room and our drawers. The door to our bedroom is now locked after an unfortunate event with a pocket knife and our foot board.
Mira is having better days consistently. She is such a wild card though when she decides to misbehave. It is hard to enforce rules for her because the situations often affect everyone else. I think that age 4 can't come soon enough! But when she is good she is very, very good!
Evie is adding words, words, words! She understands concepts that surprise me like when she wonders through the house with a bracelet showing anyone that she comes across with a, "Look! Look!". She says "Thank You" and "playground" and "pumpkin". Mandy is Candy. She brings people things that belong to them and tries (sometimes succeeding!) to put her clothes on and off.
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